Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups

Once, there were four university students who started a rock band named after a firetruck. Five and a half decades later, REO Speedwagon are still ...

Even in an age of unparalleled innovation and artistic freedom, Spirit stood head and shoulders above their 1960s-era rock 'n' roll contemporaries....

After 40 years in existence, the shorthand of critics of Tears for Fears has been to describe them as an 80s band. It is understandable why that ca...

Richard and Fred Fairbrass, better known as Right Said Fred, scored a global Number 1 hit in 1991 with their debut single 'I'm Too Sexy', selling 3...

Bob Dylan is the magician who sprinkled poetic fairy dust on to the popular music of the early sixties and his songwriting sparked a revolution and...

The artists impact on country music and how his death changed the genre A beloved member of the country music community, David Stringbean Akeman fo...

In 1778, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart leaves Salzburg for Paris. The French capital promises to liberate the 22-year-old from the suffocating grip of hi...

SIMON & GARFUNKEL is a definitive account of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel's career together. With unique material and exclusive interviews with...

Comprising a vivid and varied series of miniature biographies, revealing profiles, thought-provoking essays and a multitude of previously unknown a...

The album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill sold over 420,000 copies in its first week, received ten Grammy nominations (winning five). Celebrating T...

The artists impact on country music and how his death changed the genre A beloved member of the country music community, David Stringbean Akeman fo...

Pink is one of the most trailblazing artists of our time. Her breakthrough album, Missundaztood, was released to critical acclaim in 2001 and showc...

The Little Book of the Beatles is a superb book of quotations by, and about, the band that revolutionised popular music the world over. A perfect c...

Revered and massively influential the Smiths have been called the most important band of the fertile U.K. 1980s music scene. While the group was o...

Bursting out of industrial Birmingham in the late 1970s and hitching a ride on the Two-Tone bandwagon for their first single, The English Beat answ...

For four decades, Depeche Mode dominated electronic music, from the naïve melodies of 1981s Speak & Spell through to 2023s Memento Mori. Throug...

The hard-rocking British supergroup was fronted by Steve Marriott, possessor of what is generally regarded as one of the finest ever rock and blue-...

______________________THE #MERKY STORY SO FAR Edited and co-written by Jude YawsonContributions by Team #MerkyImages by Kaylum DennisIts been a lon...

For over a century, Richard Wagner's music has been the subject of intense debate among philosophers, many of whom have attacked its ideological-so...